The Company Accountant oversees financial operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, preparing financial reports, managing budgets, and supporting audits across multiple entities.
Job description
Job titleCompany AccountantFunctionFinanceLocationLondon (with oversight of multi-site operations) – at least 3 days from HQ (Mon, Tues and Thurs is a must).Responsible toGroup chairman
Role Overview
The Company Accountant will oversee the financial operations of RTC Education Limited, with a strong focus on education sector compliance, OFS-readiness, and multi-entity/group accounting.
This role is critical in ensuring financial accuracy, regulatory compliance, and supporting strategic growth across multiple campuses and programmes.Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Reporting & Group Accounting
3. OfS & Regulatory Compliance Support
Skills & Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Key Competencies
This role directly supports RTC’s ability to:
Job titleCompany AccountantFunctionFinanceLocationLondon (with oversight of multi-site operations) – at least 3 days from HQ (Mon, Tues and Thurs is a must).Responsible toGroup chairman
Role Overview
The Company Accountant will oversee the financial operations of RTC Education Limited, with a strong focus on education sector compliance, OFS-readiness, and multi-entity/group accounting.
This role is critical in ensuring financial accuracy, regulatory compliance, and supporting strategic growth across multiple campuses and programmes.Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Reporting & Group Accounting
- Prepare monthly management accounts across RTC entities (including consolidated/group reporting where applicable)
- Produce P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow reports for multiple centres/programmes
- Produce balance sheet reconciliation and maintain good accounting standards.
- Maintain intercompany accounts and reconciliations
- Support year-end statutory accounts and audits
- Accounting for revenue in P&L and Balance Sheet
- Ability to work with large data sets to reconcile supporting documents to actual postings.
- Investigate and resolve funding discrepancies and clawback risks
3. OfS & Regulatory Compliance Support
- Maintain accurate financial records aligned with OfS inspection requirements
- Support provision of financial evidence during inspections and audits
- Ensure transparency and audit trails for learner funding and delivery costs
- Work closely with operations teams to align financial reporting with quality metrics
- Support preparation of budgets, provide insightful historic trends
- Cash management, ability to help provide insight on future income expectations
- Implement robust financial controls across all RTC sites
- Prepare for and support ESFA audits and external financial audits
- Identify financial risks, particularly around funding compliance
- Ensure documentation is audit-ready at all times
Skills & Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- ACCA / CIMA / ACA qualified or part-qualified
- Strong knowledge of UK accounting standards and HMRC regulations
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
- Exposure to OfS education environments
- Experience in multi-site or group organisations
Experience
- 3–5+ years in a finance/accounting role
- Experience in education, training providers, or government-funded programmes preferred
- Proven experience handling audits, compliance, and reporting
Key Competencies
- Strong attention to detail, especially in compliance-heavy environments
- Ability to work across finance, MIS, and operations teams
- Commercial awareness with a focus on funding optimisation
- Strong organisational and deadline management skills
- High level of integrity and confidentiality
This role directly supports RTC’s ability to:
- Maximise and safeguard apprenticeship funding revenue
- Maintain OfS readiness and audit compliance
- Scale operations across multiple campuses and programmes
- Deliver financially sustainable growth
Regent College London London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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